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Space Legislative Blitz, February 2018

During the last Planetary Radio space policy podcast it was mentioned that in February 2018 there would be a legislative blitz in Washington DC to reach out to Congress to increase awareness for space related activities.

I went Googling and found the link here. The dates are February 25th - 27th, 2018. That's Sunday through Tuesday of the last week of February.

While I don't know if I'll have the time to actually travel down to DC, I wanted to share the information in case others are interested.

As mentioned at the link above, there will be a training session beforehand to go over talking points before going from Congress person office to office to talk and raise awareness about increasing and maintaining our space programs.

The full link above has all the details.
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